JACKSON, MI – Five days after he was sentenced to at least 10 years in prison, a 42-year-old man died when he jumped from the fourth floor of the cell block at the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center on Cooper Street.

Kevin Douglas Curl died Monday, Dec. 16, of what, preliminarily, is being called a suicide, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan wrote in an email. An autopsy was pending. He was pronounced dead at 7:48 a.m.

Marlan did not release other details because it is under investigation.

Jackson County Circuit Judge John McBain sentenced Curl on Dec. 11 to eight to 20 years in prison for first-degree home invasion and a mandatory two years in prison for using a firearm to commit a felony. The two sentences were to be served consecutively.

A jury convicted Curl on Oct. 29 of the two offenses. Jurors also found him guilty of felonious assault and carrying a concealed weapon.

While drunk and armed with a gun, he broke into his former wife's Summit Township home.

Kimberly Curl testified she called 911 about 4 a.m. June 14 when she heard glass break and dogs bark. Her ex-husband then came into her bedroom. He was pacing and telling her she ruined his life, she said at a district court preliminary examination in July.

She eventually realized he had a gun, which he seemed to pull from his pants or a pocket, and Kevin Curl bit her arm as she and their son, who lived with his mother, tried to get the weapon from him.

They were able to push Kevin Curl down a hallway and out the front door. When he came back inside the house, his wife, son and daughter escaped by climbing out a bedroom window, Kimberly Curl testified.

Police arrived, and Kevin Curl remained in the house for more than four hours before a tactical team went in and arrested him.

He was “highly inebriated” at the time, his lawyer said at the July hearing.

Kimberly and Kevin Curl had been divorced since December 2012, according to court records.

Kevin Curl had not previously been to prison, and he did not have past felony convictions in Jackson County, court and Michigan Department of Corrections records show.